Jak dobrze wrócić do domu i uściskać starych znajomych! Otóż i oni: Idgie, Julian i jego żona, Opal; kucharka Sipsey; Duży George; szeryf Grady Kilgore; ich dzieci i wnuki. Po tym, jak kawiarnia w Whistle Stop zamknęła swoje podwoje, a stacja kolejowa przestała działać, miasteczko opustoszało. Dzięki świątecznym listom Dot Weems - żadnych plotek, same fakty! - sąsiedzka więź jednak przetrwała i znów wszyscy byli świetnie poinformowani....

In this story of the rich and fascinating London subculture of chefs and kitchen denizens, Gabriel Lightfoot, executive chef at the once-splendid Imperial Hotel, is trying to run a tight kitchen but his integrity--to say nothing of his sanity--is under constant challenge from the competing demands of an exuberant multinational staff, a gimlet-eyed hotel management, business partners with whom he is secretly planning a move to a restaurant of his own,...

It's first the story of two women in the 1980s, of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth, who back in the thrities ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder....